6 THB COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG. PA. OLD-AGE PENSIONS. tTARTLING SCHEME PROJECTED BY THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT. T Allow a Gratuity of $1.S to Wcok to Krerybody Over Sixty llvo Year Old. tendon Correspondr-nre Pittsburg Dis patch. There Is every reason why the Uni ted, States should keep an eye on the really momentous agitation In England orer old ngn pensions. It Is rnther startling, when you come to think of It, this Idea of granting a pension to almost everybody 65 years old who wants It. And yet, stated on Its broadest lines, that Is what the British government seems committed to tackle at the next session of parlia ment. If the powerful agitation for this plunge Into state socialism suc ceeds In England It will be a question Of only a little time before those who would be benefited by such a policy will be bringing It up In the United 6tates, despite the fact that labor there in bettpr paid and that pauprlsm Is not proportionately so extensive. livery argument now being urged In behalf of old nge pensions In Kngland naturally applies to the United States, and if the protests of many British statesmen against the principle of the thing prove powerless against the tinlted voices of British labor, the Im plication is, to put It mildly, that the American cousin might do well to keep an eye on the progress and the out come of the debate. When the select committee appoint ed by parliament to consider the sub ject of old nge pensions made Its sur prising report recently It was supposed generally in the United States, to judge of the tone of editorial comment, that the committee's positive and emphatic endorsement of the Idea, and its opin ion that the state should make the at tempt to put it into operation, was simply a bit of harmless philosophiz ing, put on paper and published In a blue book for political purposes, and Intended to rest eventually In the par llamentnry burying round. Hut there Is plenty of evidence now that this view was a mistake. Old nge pensions will be the most important national topic, aside from war ques tions, to be considered at the next ses sion of parliament, and if a bill pro Tiding for some scheme of old nge pen sions Is not passed it will be only be cause no agreement could be reached on the extent to which the principle should be applied nnd the way the $."0. 000,000 or so could be raised nnnually. BECOMING A CRAZE. The increase In the demand for old age pensions in the last few months has been remarkable. Some plan of the sort has been before the British eye ever since Canon Blackley em bodied the idea 20 years ago. Charles Booth, who Is generally ad mitted to he the foremost sociologist in England, and perhaps In the world, probably Is responsible more than any one else for the present agitation. He gathered facts and figures with untir ing patience, and the tabulated results rather startled the public and caused one former member of partliament to break in upon the rejoicings of the queen's Jubilee by this public ques tion: Toes not her majesty reign over more paupers than any other sover eign or government in Europe?" It was estimated that on one par ticular day In 1S92 one person out of every five In the United Kingdom who had reached the age of 05 years was in receipt of public charity, and that one person out of every three of this age had applied for relief in the course of the year. More astonishing yet, it was found that one working man and woman out of every two In the coun try were more or less dependent on public charity in their old age. A LEADING POLITICAL TOPIC. At the last general election the sub ject of old nge pensioners became a leading topic in every political address, and many candidates for parliament had to pledn-e themselves for it more or less definitely before they could hope for election. The dividing line, If It could be drawn anywhere, seems to have been generally between the working people and the wealthier ele ment rather than between Liberal and Conservative. THE GOVERNMENT SCHEME. After long deliberation Mr. Chaplin's committee recommended that a pension of not less than ?1.25 or more than $1.75 a week, according to the cost of living In the locality, should be given to "any person who satisfies the pen sion authority that he Is a British sub ject, is t5 years old, has not within the last 20 years been convicted of an offense nnd sentenced to penal servi tude or imprisonment without the op tion of a fine. TENSIONS FOR EVERYBODY. Let the chancellor of the exchequer kick as he will, the agitation In favor of Charles Booth's plan to give pen ilons to everybody who wants one and has reached the ace of G5 or 70, Is growing mightily. Government clerks are figuring out what It would cost. At present the best guess is $80,000,000 a year, making due nllowance for those who, Although entitled to a pension on account of age, do not need it and will therefore be expected to decline It. Even so conservative a man as Car dinal Vuughn has caught the prevail ing fever. "Surely," he gays, "the rich are bound to tax themselves or to be taxed for their poorer brethren. I am always at a loss to understond why he colossal Incomes should not be taxed at a higher rate than, say, the tverage net Income of the upper class es. It is flttlng thnt the surplus nnd extravagance should be more heavily taxed than ordinary and legitimate ex penditure." In view of the glaring frauds In Philadelphia Chairman Keedor, inatead of rejoicing over the result of the re cent elections, must feel more like a nan who has been aiding and abetting crime. Every man who opposes a con stitutional amendment to prevent elec tion frauds is in a sence an alder and abettor of the crimes committed against an honest expression of public opinion at the polls. THE LUZON CAMPAIGN. A Map Showing- (he Advance of the American Force. Aaalaat Aa-aU nal-o'i Arm It. This map shows the field of oper ations In north central Luzon, where our troops In scernl columns are now pursuing- Agulnnldo. On the north const tut the mouth of the Cngaynn river Is the tobacco port of Aparrl, where a military nnd naval forco Is polnp from Manila to prevent the escape of Agulnnldo from the Island If he succeeds In renrhliifr its neighbor hood. The line of advance of Gen. MacArtbur's column to the north was THE WAIt IN LUZON. (Map Showing Field of Operations ot the l'resent Time.) nlonfr the railroad to Tarlne, nnd on Tuesday he ocupicd Victoria, n few miles to the northeast. Gen. Young's column advanced north to San Nic olas along' the line of C'abanatuan and t'arranplan. Gen. Lawton's force marched north between these two lines. Gen. Whcnton'a force landed nt San Fabian in the Gulf of Linjrunen. Ajjuinnldo, who was then nt J'aynin Imnpr.to the south, thereupon returned to his "capital," Tnrlno, nnd apparent ly did not hear of the three columns advancing upon him from the south till his arrival nt that place. There upon lie fled, nnd it is supposed that he went northeast Into the mountains on his way to 1'nyombong on one of the head streams of the lnrpe Caga yan river. If he had pone there the American troops nrc apparently close on his heels, for n troop of cavalry is said to have reached Bnnbnng nnd an other is at Aritao, both towns beinp within n short distance of Bayom bong. San Jacinto, where Maj. Logan was killed, Is a little cast of San Fabian. The coral reef where the Charleston struck is ten miles east of the Island of Camiguin, and the crew of the un fortunate cruiser took refuge on this island. IS A FAMOUS LAWYER. J-adsce Simeon K. IUIrivrln, M ho Will lie President of the Interna tional Law An-ocl-tlon. Judge Simeon E. Baldwin, of New Haven, Conn., who will next year suc ceed Sir Richard Webster, attorney general of Englnnd, in the eminent po sition of president of the Internation al Law association, is not only a learned jurist, but one who has dis tinguished himself for many odd fan cies that from time to time have at tracted attention in all parts of the country. It wus only this year thnt the judge urged the necessity of resorting to the use of the whipping post In Con necticut. This commendation he made to the municipal judges of Con necticut, of whose supreme court Judge Baldwin is a member. This was in February. In September he mude himself the most conspicuous JUDGE SIMEON E. BALDWIN. (Prospective President International Law Association.) figure at the Saratoga convention of the American Association of Social Science by boldly advocating that a law be passed prohibiting pliysicluns from prolonging, by their scientific skill, the lives of persons who lire suf fering from a mortal malady. This sentiment evoked unbounded aston ishment in Christendom, coming as it did, from u supreme judge and the president of the association itself. Judge Baldwin was born in New Haven in 1840 from families of dis tinguished ancestry. He n, great grandson of Roger Sherman, and his father occupied the position on the supreme bench now filled by the judge himself. New Haven's great jurist is a Yale man and a lawyer of Yale nnd Harvard both. The judge has been professor of constitutional law nt Yale, president of the American Bar association, and counsel for the New York & New England ruilroad. He is a well-known contributor to the literature of the law, and eight years ago he was made IX. D. of Harvard. AMERICAN CITIES. SOME FACTS ABOUT THEM THAT ARE INTERESTING. The Oldest la Allmn.v Hut Three Have Population Itiinnlnur Into Million. McKcenporti J'a., Is the Healthiest. Saloon Statistic. ! Acting on Instructions from congress the department of labor at Washington issued In Its September bulletin statis tics relating to all the cities In the United States of a population of 30,000 or more. It was found that there were 140 such cities, and the statistics col lected throw much Interesting light on their status and development. The oldest city in the United States la Albany, N. Y., which was Incorpor ated in 1686, Philadelphia dating 15 years later. New York, Chicago and Philadelphia are the only American cities whoso population runs into the millions. Some odd contrasts are pre sented in the tables which give the area covered by the different cities. It appears that Taunton, Mass., occupies a territory greater than that of either Boston or Baltimore. New Orleans, a city of 285,000lnhnbitants,coversl25,600 acres, while Newark, N. J., with a population of about the same size, oc cupies less than 12,000 acres. One ex pects to find the manufacturing dis tricts of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Illinois closely packed, but It Is surprising to notice that Richmond, Va covers only 6,520 acres, aud Louis ville, Ky., 12,800 acres, as compared with Duluth, Minn., and Des Moines, la., which, with much smaller popula tions In each ense, cover respectively 40.0CO and 3-1,1560 acres. The second table in the bulletin deals with saloons, police force, nnd tho number of arrests from drunkenness. Judging from the arrests made, it seems that Davenport, la.. Is the most sober city In the United States, while San Francisco and Boston suffer most from drunkards. Several papers tried to find In this table some lifiht that would help to elucidate temperance problems, but found the figures so con fusing as to be of very little practical use. The New York Evening Post, for example, commenting on this part of the report, says: "It casts darkness rather than light upon the que -tion. For example, Springfield, Mass., Manchester, N. H., and Utlca, N. Y., have each about CO, 000 inhabitants. Utlca is under the Raines law, Springfield under the high j license system of Massachusetts and j Manchaster under nominal prohibition. The New Hampshire city has no legal saloons, while Springfield has 47 and Utlca 252. But Manchester has had 1,456 arrests for drunkenness during the past year, while Springfield had 1,431. Still more remarkable is the record of only 765 arrests in Utlca, or only about half as many as In Spring- field, although there are more than ' five times as many saloons. Almost as anomalous is the showing of only 383 arrests In Dayton, O., with 400 saloons and 85,000 people, while Hartford, i Conn., with 77,000 people nnd but 219 ' saloons, reported 2,460. There is no possible way of reconciling such ex traordinary differences, except upon the theory that the police in some cities enforce the laws much more strictly thnn those of others, and 'run in drunks' when men In the same con dition elsewhere would be passed by." The health statistics show that Mc keesport, Pa., is perhaps the healthiest city in the country. Its rate of deaths from consumption is only 1,09 per 1,000, as compared with 12 In Boston and New York, and 26 In Denver, Colo. due, of course, to the fact that con sumptives resort to Denver from all parts of the country. The rate of 13.60 deaths per 1,000 from old age (con siderably the highest on the list), Is accredited to Salt Lake City, a condi tion to account for which no theory has yet been brought forward. In Pittsburg and Chicago deaths from old age are only 2 per 1,000. At a time when the extension of municipal functions Is occupying pub lic attention. It is interesting to note the figures which relute to city owner ship. Ninety-six cities own their own water supply, among the exceptions be ing Indianapolis, New Haven, New Or leans and San Francisco. Four have municipal gas works Duluth, Rich mond, Toledo nnd Wheeling and 13 own and operate electric light plants. 1'he Klcctlon Frauds. From Senator Mngee'a IMttnburs Times. The frauds alleged to have been per petrated In certain election precincts of Philadelphia are of a character so startling and serious that stern duty to the people and to the Republican party demands their thorough investi gation and the meting out of swift and severe punishment to the guilty ones should such an investigation establish the truth of the charges. The devel opments at the preliminary hearing, which have been set forth in The Times, were of tho most sensational character, nnd the exposure of the methods pursued by these repeaters was so complete and convincing as to leave little, if any, room for doubt. Nothing can be Justly advanced in ex tenuation of such climes against the ballox box. They are a blow struck directly at the liberties of the whole I people, and in this case they are also ! a crime against the Republican party. That party has always stood for "a free ballot and a fair caunt," nnd It cannot defend such deliberate and wholesale violations of right as these charges cover. The investigation of these alleged crimes should be prosecuted by every agency of the law, nnd If they are 1 proved to be true their porpotrators and all those responsible, directly or Indirectly, for them should receive, without any mitigation, the punish- ment an outraged law provides. Tho I silict it y of the ballot box is of the supreniest Importance to every citizen and no matter how close their alliance with the continuous support of those in 1 control of tho party organization In the state the sternest punishment Is none too severe for those who would thus , bring discredit upon Pennsylvania aad , upon th Democratic party. CLOTHES AND THE MAN. Tha Difference lie In Well Dreaded Made to a Cabinet Oftlclnl. "Yes, tho clothes a uinn wenrs make a great deal of difference In this world, especially In oftlclnl life," remarked the private secretary of a cnblnet du ctal, who Is compelled to see many people and to hold ninny tnoro people nt bay. "I was especially struck witli the importance of clothing some time ago," continued the otllclnl, "when tho as sistant secretary was absent nnd It was my duty to stnve all tho cnllcrs off the secretary. I do thnt often, but when tho assistant secretaries nre hero they help a great deal. "Well, I noticed on the occasion 1 referred to that I had no trouble In keeping people nwny when 1 wore my Prince Albert nnd looked like the renl thing. When I told them that the sec retary wns too busy to see callers, they thought I owned tho whole plnce nnd wnlked nwny without remonstrance or without saying thnt their business wns very lmportnnt and they were sure they would be seen If I would Just take their names to tho secretary. "When I wore an average looking business suit, which might look Just a little bit shabby, the callers didn't pay much attention to whnt 1 said. It wns more dillleult than you enn Imagine to get them to go nwny. They would find nil kinds of excuses to remain and to get me to present their names to the secretary. The difference was so ap preciable as to be noticed by others in tho room. I found that it paid me to go well dressed on all occasions and that I wns much more useful to my execu tive head." Washington Star. Coined Words. Coined words! I have made a little study of them myself, always with disappointing results. I always run across them, after discovering them, somewhere about 100 years before the birth of the Inventor. 1 once coined a name, away back In 1S70, for one of my an called humorous characters P.ilderback. I put the Bllderback fam ily In Jocus print for several years. One night, about 1.SS7, 1 lectured In Sa lem, N. J.. and told one of my Bilder back stories. Tho audience was con vulsed with more mirth than the story called for. After the lecture I wns In troduced to about n dozen Bilderbacks, who enjoyed my story more than any one else. Iiobert J. Burdette In Clinu tautjuan. ninlne and Thai-man. The senate has always been con trolled by lawyers, who nre the aristo cratic class lu the United States, and Blaine was nt a disadvantage because he did not belong to the profession. The law lords were disposed to dis parage nnd flout him, but be was dis respectful to the verge of Irreverence. "Does the senator from Maine think I am nn Idiot?" roared Tburman, In reply to nn Interrogatory Blaine put to hlra one day In the PaciUc railroad debate. "Well." bellowed Blaine, "that de pends entirely on the nnswer you make to my question!" Saturdny Evening Post. TIND OUT YOURSELF. Why nsl: a physician to find out whether your kidneys are diseased. Take n glass tumbler nnd fill it with urine. If there is a sediment nfter standing twenty-four hours, your kidneys are sick. If you have a desire to urinate often, a pain in the back, or if your urine stains linen, you should nt once take Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, as delay is clangorous. I here is no ques tion about its being the best and surest med icine in the world for any and ali diseases of the kidneys, liver, bladder and of the urinary passages, rheumatism, dyspepsia or consti pation of the bowels. It (piickly relieves in ability to hold urine, aud the necessity of getting up often during the night. 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